Tuesday, August 9, 2011

While YIA is on summer break, check out this 8.5 Hour Kirtan!!!

Kirtan is the devotional call and response singing that uplifts the heart in ways that can't be explained, only experienced! You WILL walk away feeling better than when you arrived, we can surely tell you that.

So come out this Saturday August 27th from 2:00pm - 10:30pm @ YOGAMAYA, 135 West 20th St. (www.yogamayanewyork.com)

This is the MONTHLY 6hr kirtan hosted by Mantrology and the Bhakti Center which will expand to 8.5 hours. Come for some, or stay the entire time and feel the BLISS of bathing in the HOLY NAME for a LONG time!

Prasadam (food made with love and devotion, amazingly good for the heart) will be served!

Thursday, June 16, 2011

This is a time to release negative energy, to release it in the light of the full moon which is still with us tonight.

Say "be gone" just a few times as you think of what you want to release, and see it going from your life.

Full moons and especially lunar eclipses are amazingly transformative times to become really clear in your vision, a vision that is unfettered by the chains of any lack or limitation (ie., negative energy).

This is a time when the Earth's shadow completely blocks the moon – known as totality – that lasted a whopping 1 hour and 40 minutes. The last time the moon was covered for this long was in July 2000, when it lasted 7 minutes longer than that.

The entire eclipse was a little over 5 1/2 hours and the effects of it's energy were mainly felt by those who could see it. North America didn't, and observers in Europe missed the first part of the show because it occurred before the moon rose. Eastern Asia and eastern Australia didn't catch the final stages, which happened after the moon set.

Wild... check out the spiritual and global ramifications of this eclipse here: http://afsanaydely.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/total-lunar-eclipse-of-the-2011-june-15/

Saturday, April 23, 2011

During class on the 19th, we began with a meditation where we called into our mind one thing that we'd like to release that was holding us back from our greatest life. After a few moments of guided meditation and deep, centered breathing, we all wrote down on a piece of paper this one thing (of course their might be more than one, but we have to start somewhere!).

The notes were then folded and collected in a porcelain bowl and brought to the front of class.

Throughout the yoga and meditation class that followed, reminders were giving of how the work they were doing right here and now was helping to release that which was written down. One of the beautiful things with yoga that makes it so transformative, is that what you experience on the mat and what you work through in practice contributes directly to changes you can see in your life off the mat.

At the close of the session, the pieces of paper were shredded, and the class learned that they would be burned that night under the rays of the full moon. We closed class with wonderful conversation and cookies, and many reported already feeling lighter having gone through the ceremony simply til that point.

So yes... later that evening, prayers of deep intention for release were given to the universe before the papers were lit on fire and the ashes cast to the wind. It was a very powerful feeling as they became engulfed in flames, sensing our attachment to them being burned away as well.For the 28 days until the next full moon on Tuesday the 17th, the class is being reminded to keep vigil of how what was written has been released. At any time, if a nagging remembrance of that thing released comes up - especially if the impression is deep - the process of victory is to acknowledge its lack of power because it's not real... anything with traces of fear, limitation, lack, worry, negativity... none of them are part of our real nature.

So come join us until the next full moon... we'll be having a special new moon class on May 2nd which is another energetically powerful day, as well as another cleansing on the next full moon to help this newly birthed reality to flourish in one's life and to help others new on this journey release any limitations as well.

Teachers Meghan Mackintosh & Antonia Dunbar

About Us

Meghan & Antonia founded YIA based on their love of yoga and its positive effects, while also recognizing a scarcity of sustainable stress-relief and relationship-building in the ad community (Meghan and Antonia work at Pulse Music).

YIA not only offers a sustainable alternative,
but a place to develop physical, mental & spiritual balance.